OpenCms

March 2, 2015: OpenCms 9.5.1 is a maintenance update for OpenCms 9.5 that fixes a number of issues and adds some functional enhancements. New in OpenCms 9.5.1 Added "DependentSelectWidget" that obtains values depending on other content fields.* ... [More] Added alternative login handler to authorize users with a cookie. Added option to search for expired / unreleased resources to all gallery dialogs. Added option "galleryselect" to select a gallery to file selector widget. Added further configuration options for OpenCms auto-setup. Added option to use permanent instead of temporary redirects from a non-secure to a secure server. Added Solr "rows" parameter in workplace's source search. Added support for configuring a JDBC connection in the OpenCms db properties. Demo template updated to Bootstrap 3.3.2. Items marked with * are considered important improvements in this version. Improved in OpenCms 9.5.1 Fixed issue #197 with static export links being generated even if the static export was disabled. Fixed issue #240 with malfunctioning "invalid date" error message in date select widget. Fixed issue #258 with URL name mappings not working correctly with locales of the form "language_COUNTRY". Fixed issue #285 with encoding problems / wrong escape character handling in CmsParameterConfiguration. Fixed issue #287 with external link validation failing for expired resources. Fixed issue #289 with opening the gallery tab in the workplace preferences dialog. Fixed issue #291 that occurred when using "Assign categories" in the legacy xmlpage direct edit provider. Fixed issue #292 that an exception was thrown when editing settings for the "content check" tool. Fixed issue #295 with user administration when using MS SQL Server. Fixed issue #296 with XML content correction saving a wrong order of choice elements after a schema change. Fixed XSS security issues affecting the request parameter based locale handler. Fixed several issues with secure site handling. Fixed issue in page editor where a selected formatter was reset to the default when content was dragged to a different container. Fixed issue where detail page URLs with fragments were not processed correctly in the editor. Fixed issue that the "Keep permissions" option was ignored during database imports. Fixed issue where database entries were not removed after a deleted file was published if versioning was disabled.     Fixed issue where only the latest historic version was actually saved when the file history was set to "unlimited". Fixed issue where OU deletion caused server timeouts with large VFS repositories. Fixed issue where new roles were not created for existing sub OUs of the root OU. Fixed issue with slow performance for systems using many web user OUs. . Fixed issue where the initial role given to a new user was always in the root OU. Fixed issue with "editableby" attribute of <cms:container> not working correctly for roles of users outside the root OUs. Fixed issue where modified JSPs were infrequently not updated after publishing. Fixed issue where new resources were removed from offline search indexes if a user modified them. Fixed issue with Solr returning expired documents by default. Fixed issue where the workplace search dialog lost the current directory.  Fixed issue with the "Create new" option not always appearing in the settings dialog. Fixed issue where model page elements on which the "Create new" option was set were treated as new elements. Fixed issue where enabling detail views in traditional workplace lists affected all other users. Fixed issue in link substitution with folders using the OpenCms servlet name when OpenCms is installed as ROOT application.   Fixed issue with editor change handler not updating optional fields in the content editor. Fixed issue with validation of hidden fields in the content editor. Fixed issue with <cms:bundle> tag not using the default locale as a fallback. Fixed issue in cmsshell.sh and setup.sh so that running the scripts outside of WEB-INF is now possible. Fixed issue with CodeMirror editor configuration not working for Internet Explorer 11. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more Backward compatibility OpenCms 9.5.1 is fully backward compatible with all 8.x and 9.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 9.5.1. Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE OpenCms 9.5.1 requires a new version of Alkacon OCEE. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkaconto receive the new version.  Compatibility with Java versions, servlet containers and databases OpenCms 9.5.1 has been written and tested for Java 6 and 7. We have tested with ORACLEs JDK as well as OpenJDK. OpenCms should run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 7, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA, Websphere, Glassfish and Resin Professional. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2 and HSQLDB. Regarding version numbers and build tags The main OpenCms Git repository is available on Github at github.com/alkacon/opencms-core. In case you want to get the most current OpenCms X sources from Git, please check out "branch_9_5_x". The 9.5.1 release is tagged "build_9_5_1". How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please send us your pull requests directly on GitHub. Please report issues found in OpenCms using our GitHub issue tracker. Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 9.5.1 :-) [Less]

OpenCms 9.5.1 now ready and available for download. OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer ... [More] community. OpenCms 9.5.1 is a maintenance update for OpenCms 9.5 that fixes a number of issues and adds some functional enhancements. We also have updated the OpenCms Docker image as well as the OpenCms documentation for this release. Improved in OpenCms 9.5.1 Added "DependentSelectWidget" that obtains values depending on other content fields. Added alternative login handler to authorize users with a cookie. Added option to search for expired / unreleased resources to all gallery dialogs. Added option "galleryselect" to select a gallery to file selector widget. Added further configuration options for OpenCms auto-setup. Added option to use permanent instead of temporary redirects from a non-secure to a secure server. Added Solr "rows" parameter in workplace's source search. Added support for configuring a JDBC connection in the OpenCms db properties. Demo template updated to Bootstrap 3.3.2. Dozens of issues have been fixed (see the release notes for the complete list). New in OpenCms 9.5 Drag & drop template and layout creation with nested containers. User generated content for website visitors. Editors don't need to access the workplace anymore. Managing of galleries, categories and templates in the sitemap editor. Greatly enhanced documentation. Generate PDF documents on the fly. Grid based responsive demo website build with Bootstrap. Integrated Spell Checker for the WYSIWYG editor component. New roles for fine grained access to the content management functions. Element views allow easy grouping and permission setting for content types. Create, copy or reuse options when using existing contents. Updated user preferences dialog accessible in the page editor. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the version 9.5.1 release. OpenCms 9.5.1 is fully backward compatible to all prior 9.x and 8.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions work "out of the box" with version 9.5.1. OpenCms 9.5.1 requires a new version of Alkacon OCEE. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkacon to receive the new version. Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release. About OpenCms Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 14 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license. Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations. Please see the Alkacon product overview for more details. The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms. [Less]

We have launched a new OpenCms documentation site and also updated the demo site for OpenCms 9.5.  The updated demo website allows users to take a quick test drive of OpenCms in a personal demo installation, exclusively created for each user ... [More] automatically. The brand new OpenCms Documentation Central site features the updated and extended OpenCms 9.5 documentation, as well as the online JavaDocs and links to all other relevant OpenCms information sources. [Less]

We have launched a new OpenCms documentation site and also updated the demo site for OpenCms 10.5.  The updated demo website allows users to take a quick test drive of OpenCms in a personal demo installation, exclusively created for each user ... [More] automatically. The brand new OpenCms Documentation Central site features the updated and extended OpenCms 10.5 documentation, as well as the online JavaDocs and links to all other relevant OpenCms information sources. [Less]

We have launched a new OpenCms documentation site and also updated the demo site for OpenCms 9.5.  The updated demo website allows users to take a quick test drive of OpenCms in a personal demo installation, exclusively created for each user ... [More] automatically. The brand new OpenCms Documentation Central site features the updated and extended OpenCms 9.5 documentation, as well as the online JavaDocs and links to all other relevant OpenCms information sources. [Less]

Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website. The new OCEE version 4.5.0 is a ... [More] maintenance release that brings some improvements and fixes several issues of earlier OCEE versions. A new version 3.5.5 for OpenCms 8.x and a version 2.1.8 for OpenCms 7.x is also available.  Please see the OCEE release notes for a full description about the new features and changes in this version. OCEE 4.5.0 is required by the new OpenCms 9.5 and backward compatible with all older OpenCms 9.0 versions. About Alkacon OCEE The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE) are a commercial extension for OpenCms. Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important. The main components are: Alkacon OCEE Cluster ManagerAllows for clustering of OpenCms Servers for mission critical environments. Alkacon OCEE ReplicatorMakes it possible to replicate the OpenCms repository data to remote database instances, e.g. from "test" to "live" servers. Alkacon OCEE LDAP ConnectorProvides full integration of existing LDAP user directories with the OpenCms permission system. Alkacon OCEE AcceleratorProvides additional high performance caches to accelerate the data access and delivery. The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are available as a licensed software product from Alkacon Software GmbH, the company responsible for most of the development of the open source core OpenCms system. OCEE is installed on a standard OpenCms system. OCEE is a binary only distribution. This means that the source code for the OCEE modules is not available. To use any of the Alkacon OCEE packages, you need to enter a license key that will be provided by Alkacon software after your purchase of an Alkacon OCEE license. [Less]

Support for OpenCms 9.5 has arrived in the Docker hub registry. We even have created 2 images for OpenCms 9.5: Basic image 'simple': This is a basic OpenCms install with mySQL and Tomcat. OpenCms has been installed like that for ages, and it just ... [More] works. Best suited for evaluation and test purposes. Development image 'dev': This is a somewhat advanced OpenCms install with HSQLDB and Tomcat. Recommended for development use. OpenCms is installed in the ROOT webapp here, so the URL is shorter. Moreover, the OpenCms repository SMB / network share feature is enabled, so you can directly connect your desktop to the repo. What is Docker and why should you care? Docker is an open platform for distributed applications. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols provides a nice explanation for the fast rising popularity of Docker in his blog on ZDnet: "In a nutshell, here's what Docker can do for you: It can get more applications running on the same hardware than other technologies; it makes it easy for developers to quickly create, ready-to-run containered applications; and it makes managing and deploying applications much easier. Put it all together and I can see why Docker is riding the hype cycle as fast as I can recall ever seeing an enterprise technology go." [Less]

Support for OpenCms 10.5 has arrived in the Docker hub registry. What is Docker and why should you care? Docker is an open platform for distributed applications. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols provides a nice explanation for the fast rising popularity of ... [More] Docker in his blog on ZDnet: "In a nutshell, here's what Docker can do for you: It can get more applications running on the same hardware than other technologies; it makes it easy for developers to quickly create, ready-to-run containered applications; and it makes managing and deploying applications much easier. Put it all together and I can see why Docker is riding the hype cycle as fast as I can recall ever seeing an enterprise technology go." [Less]

Support for OpenCms 9.5 has arrived in the Docker hub registry. We even have created 2 images for OpenCms 9.5: Basic image 'simple': This is a basic OpenCms install with mySQL and Tomcat. OpenCms has been installed like that for ages, and it just ... [More] works. Best suited for evaluation and test purposes. Development image 'dev': This is a somewhat advanced OpenCms install with HSQLDB and Tomcat. Recommended for development use. OpenCms is installed in the ROOT webapp here, so the URL is shorter. Moreover, the OpenCms repository SMB / network share feature is enabled, so you can directly connect your desktop to the repo. What is Docker and why should you care? Docker is an open platform for distributed applications. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols provides a nice explanation for the fast rising popularity of Docker in his blog on ZDnet: "In a nutshell, here's what Docker can do for you: It can get more applications running on the same hardware than other technologies; it makes it easy for developers to quickly create, ready-to-run containered applications; and it makes managing and deploying applications much easier. Put it all together and I can see why Docker is riding the hype cycle as fast as I can recall ever seeing an enterprise technology go." [Less]

The new OpenCms 9.5 is ready and available for download. OpenCms 9.5 brings template creation without the need to code, plus other features like user generated content, on-the-fly PDF generation, greatly improved documentation and much more - all ... [More] presented in a responsive demo website based on Bootstrap. New in OpenCms 9.5 Drag & drop template and layout creation with nested containers. User generated content for website visitors. Editors don't need to access the workplace anymore. Managing of galleries, categories and templates in the sitemap editor. Greatly enhanced documentation. Generate PDF documents on the fly. Grid based responsive demo website build with Bootstrap. Integrated Spell Checker for the WYSIWYG editor component. New roles for fine grained access to the content management functions. Element views allow easy grouping and permission setting for content types. Create, copy or reuse options when using existing contents. Updated user preferences dialog accessible in the page editor. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the version 9.5 release. OpenCms 9.5 is fully backward compatible to all prior 9.x and 8.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions work "out of the box" with version 9.5. OpenCms 9.5 requires a new version of Alkacon OCEE. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkacon to receive the new version. Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release. About OpenCms Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 14 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license. Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations. Please see the Alkacon products overview for more details. The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms. [Less]